Member of Parliament, Hamilton East–Stoney Creek:
Critic for Human Rights
Critic for Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Elected Positions:
- Member of Parliament for Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, 2006-present
- Hamilton Wentworth District School Board Trustee, 2000 – 2005.
- President of the Hamilton and District Labour Council 1991 – 2005
Career:
- President and CEO HDLC Inc 1995 - 2005
- Bell Canada Technician 1974 - 1995
- CNR Signalman 1968 – 1974
- Sapper Apprentice Royal Canadian Engineers 1963 – 1964
Community Service:
- Member of the Various Boards and Committees; United Way Board, Hamilton Tourism Board, the Strengthening Hamilton Community Initiative
- Founding Chair of the Mohawk College Labour Advisory Committee
- Chair of the Worker Education Centre and Chair of McMaster University Labour Studies Advisory Committee
- Lives in Hamilton with his wife Barbara and has four grown children and nine grandchildren
In 1987, then-Governor General Sauvé presented Wayne with the Medal of Bravery, and the Ontario Provincial Police awarded him a Citation for Bravery for his rescue of a driver from a burning vehicle.
In 2008 Jack Layton appointed Wayne the NDP’s Advocate on Human Rights, Seniors and Pensions and Steel issues.
Since then Wayne has been one of the country’s foremost champions of human rights and the rights of seniors, and to date has visited over 40 communities across Canada hearing from seniors about the issues that concern them most.
In June, 2009, Wayne’s Opposition Day Motion on pension reform passed unanimously in the House of Commons. Wayne’s important motion continues to be the NDP’s blueprint for pension reform.
Following the 2011, Election Leader Jack Layton assigned Wayne as Shadow Critic of the Minister of State for Finance (Pensions) Ted Menzies. Mr. Layton also designated Wayne as the Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights. Former interim Leader Nycole Turmel later re-appointed Wayne to the position of NDP Human Rights Critic. In Spring of 2012, Leader Thomas Mulcair appointed Wayne to his current role as NDP Critic for Human Rights and Critic for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario.